Hi all,
It was a almost a unimaginable surprise when I heard a Samsung camera has a
Tamil interface! See pic[1]. It is important milestone when Indic is
starting to reach beyond computers, mobiles. While this also reinforces the
Indic growth theory(not just wikimedia in non-profit space, even for

Srikanth,
This is brilliant. Great news. Now if only my phone could support
Indic languages. I'd've said Supera Irukke. But still, an important
milestone. I only hope however, that translations are appropriate. I
hope it's not a simply transliterated interface or extremely technical
at the same

Wow Nitika, thank you for talking out time to write such a detailed
reply to this thread. I agree completely, we learn, we enjoy. It is
indeed magical. There are perfect examples as part of this mailing
list itself. The only problem, however is getting across this thought
to newcomers. : )
On

Hi,
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Shrinivasan T tshriniva...@gmail.comwrote:
hi arjuna,
thanks for the wishes.
I am also very new to wikipedia.
please give some more details on categories.
Please see Wiki Conference India as a sample category

On 19-Dec-2011, at 4:05 PM, Ashwin Baindur wrote:
Nitika, the plus points you gave are really well thought out
well-expressed. Wikipedians can use these in outreach. Great work, keep it up!
Stay tuned to this channel. I'm working on something that i'd love to have
your (and everyone

Hi,
Today, I went to download WordPress and it told me it is also available in
Tamil. Very neatly done as it somehow detected that I am from Tamilnadu.
See the screenshot at: http://ravidreams.com/ta-wordpress.png
A similar announcement in English Wiki projects is sure to double or triple

True that. While Hindi and Tamil have always been at an advantage due
to them being the first two Indic languages to be embraced by the tech
industry, AFAIK, the sms typed on these phones don't conform to
Unicode standards. Atleast not on Nokia models.
On 12/19/11, Sudhanwa Jogalekar

Agreed. This tool is definitely an asset. I hope somebody has
forwarded this to the Commons mailing list as well as the Tech and
Foundation lists to show the dedication that Shrini has shown here.
On 12/19/11, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 5:47 PM,

Nitika, while you're at it, also try and look into what may get us
more women editors. I have a bunch of reasons and ideas which may
someday, come out.
On 12/19/11, Nitika ntan...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 19-Dec-2011, at 4:05 PM, Ashwin Baindur wrote:
Nitika, the plus points you gave are

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 17:24, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Today, I went to download WordPress and it told me it is also available in
Tamil. Very neatly done as it somehow detected that I am from Tamilnadu.
Geolocation within India is impossible. My guess is it used your

A good idea no doubt, but I think the detecting which state the user
comes from part is a small road block. While Google Mail has been
showing which state the IP is from in the logins section, I think the
browser or system language should also be taken into consideration,
though it may seem

On a slightly related note
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector
-TC
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Today, I went to download WordPress and it told me it is also available in
Tamil. Very neatly done as it somehow detected

Subha,
If you check WordPress.com it shows all available Indic languages.
If you check WordPress.org, I think it is showing only Tamil (may be
because as you said it is the only translation available and that too for
Srilankan Tamil : )
But the point is: Even if you show all available Indic

Hi Folks,
There were no laptops for the participants or the internet connection was weak
- so I could only give a lecture on wikipedia but could not give hands-on
training
I conducted sessions but I really don't know if anything productive came out of
it since I'm not confident that anyone of

A small extension of my previous post.
Logic, geolocation within India is very much possible. Atleast I know
Google can do it. The only hitch is that it doesn't work well with
Wireless connections.
For instance, I frequently use a Reliance Wireless modem, which is
registered in K'taka but even in

On 19-Dec-2011, at 5:35 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan wrote:
Nitika, while you're at it, also try and look into what may get us
more women editors. I have a bunch of reasons and ideas which may
someday, come out.
Sure Srikanth! I'd love to get more women editors onboard. And I'd love to hear

A single line like Wikipedia is also available in Bengali, Hind,
Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil at the top and to the left of Login/create
account link will be fine. The line can be as what you see in
http://www.google.co.in/ . If we feel showing too many languages is
clutter, show random and

Ravi, I agree. The rotation system, if implemented works best. However
do note, this is best suited for the desktop version only, not
Mobiles. I'd like to point out that - People who use Opera Mini on
their mobiles, get routed thru a European server while all BlackBerry
users get routed thru a

I think Sundar has suggested something like this before in this list. :)
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On 19 December 2011 18:04, Srikanth Ramakrishnan
parakara.gh...@gmail.comwrote:
Ravi, I agree. The rotation system, if

Nitika, thanks for starting a new thread. I'd like to make a single
point first about this matter. Do think about it. No matter how
excellet facilities are provided, how yuai enthusiasm is shown,
physical outreach programs actually have very little or zero impact on
getting new people on board.

Srikanth,
Even if only x% (or say people who wear white shirt on Monday evenings) are
going to see this notice, it is still useful and not going to hurt the
project in anyway.
Unless the community stands united and requests this feature, it will not
happen any sooner.
So, let us not loose steam

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Today, I went to download WordPress and it told me it is also available in
Tamil. Very neatly done as it somehow detected that I am from Tamilnadu.
See the screenshot at: http://ravidreams.com/ta-wordpress.png
A

Also, we already have that in the left side of every page, the sidebar on
every article lists the version of that article available in different
languages.
Regards
Theo
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Ravishankar

Theo, last time I checked, Indic languages are no longer listed in the
side of the English Main Page. A limited number of languages is there
with a link to More Languages.
On 12/19/11, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote:
Also, we already have that in the left side of every page, the sidebar on

Conclusion, it did not make a dent. Most people dismissed the banners, and
never clicked, those that did, never followed to edit. It made little to no
difference in the visitor or editor stats for the period.
Theo,
Clearly, links in sidebars are not getting enough eyeballs. It is also hard

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote:
Theo,
Clearly, links in sidebars are not getting enough eyeballs. It is also
hard to look for one's own language when there are too many interwiki
links. Unless you are intentionally looking for it, it is hard to

Dear all,
Just keeping you posted if you haven't seen the IRC log yet. A couple of
women Wikipedians from Australia and Argentina chapters have been planning
a Wikiwomen camp and conference in Argentina sometime in May, 2012. I know
it's far away and probably the official announcement will happen

Wow, Nice awesome responses. Thanks to all for detailed thoughts.
And Srikanth, I know this is not enough for you ;) just keep up the good
work and have faith. Don't get confused.
Regards
ansuman
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On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Ashwin Baindur

Throwing a few ideas since our participation tendency seems positive:
1) Can we start doing a few things in the background: compile lists of
monuments? ASI already has the list for monuments of national importance,
State wise: http://asi.nic.in/asi_monu_alphalist.asp
2) Let's sign up/raise hands

hi,
Since this is happening for the first time at the national level and the
international level, perhaps it would be nice to not do it at the state
level at all. Let all the photos come into a common pool and allow for
voting that would lead to these becoming India's entries for Wiki Loves

Gautam, I was wondering if you could get in touch with the CIS and try
and organise such events in other tech based cities in India like
Mysore, Hyderabad, Chennai and of course Coimbatore?
--
Regards,
Srikanth Ramakrishnan.
Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th.

Thanks Nikita for your brief report. All your points are valid. And all
activities are going on If I am right. I am suggesting something new, don't
know whether possible or not.
It would be great if we can produce a common standard *
Presentation/Brochure/Leaflet* (name it whatever suits)* *which

Congrats. It seems like a great initiative, Noopur. :)
I saw Beria was working on the pages for this on Meta. Good luck!
Regards
Theo
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear all,
Just keeping you posted if you haven't seen the IRC log yet. A couple of

Hi All,
While testing both Lohit and Utkal has hinting problems in or wp, is that
possible to keep them optional? As of now automatically the default font
changes to Lohit when you open or wp, instead of that is that possible to
make it optional which someone can choose the dropdown?
Subha

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 07:33, Subhashish Panigrahi
psubhash...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi All,
While testing both Lohit and Utkal has hinting problems in or wp, is that
possible to keep them optional? As of now automatically the default font
changes to Lohit when you open or wp, instead of that is

is there any image viewer in windows where we can add comments and notes to
images?
the meta data we add is called IPTC tags.
if so we can use this application in windows too.
please find it and share here.
thanks.
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On Dec 19, 2011, at 8:16 PM, Theo10011 wrote:
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote:
This is a really useful discussion and there's a powerful idea. I agree with
Ravi that there is an opportunity to build awareness and traffic to Indic
language sites.

Dear All,
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